Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard and a few followers escaped downstream to Geoffrey de Rancon 's castle at Taillebourg while the bulk of his troops were driven back into the cathedral , where they held out for a few days . |
| 2 | Charles reappeared , after half an hour 's absence , and threw himself into an armchair , where he lay back for some time with his eyes shut . |
| 3 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 4 | Or he stood in for one or other of the teachers , notably Miss Gilberd when she wanted to ‘ pop home ’ , or Mr McWhirter when he failed altogether to arrive . |
| 5 | ‘ It was so late when we finished yesterday that I queued up for 20 minutes for a takeaway hamburger , ’ he said . |
| 6 | In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’ |
| 7 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
| 8 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 9 | Yeah yeah yeah I had a shilling pocket money and out of that I saved up for a bike . |
| 10 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 11 | It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension . |
| 12 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
| 13 | About eighty villagers followed me inside , and waited expectantly … so I struck out for the hinterlands . |
| 14 | I could still run , so I turned up for football training and things have gone on from there . |
| 15 | Mr Whinnett said : ‘ Joanna was in a state of pure terror and , although she sat down for a while , she most certainly did not sleep . ’ |
| 16 | The diary that she sent off for , for me 's arrived . |
| 17 | " So you went out for air . " |
| 18 | Obviously , at the moment we 're not publicly pointing the finger at your five chums , so we went in for blanket forensic tests on everyone and examination of everyone 's quarters . ’ |
| 19 | She wanted a child , so we signed up for the eugenics lottery . |
| 20 | Two cyclists seemed fair game to these pissed idiots so we took off for the hills , only a small range but , we were to discover , quite beautiful . |
| 21 | The driver 's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there . |
| 22 | We were cooking for ourselves so we settled in for the evening and made ourselves comfortable . |
| 23 | It was then that they scooped out for the storage of goods the extensive vaults and cellaring that still run beneath the old town today . |
| 24 | In one case , police admitted that they cried out for investigation , but explained that they could not undertake it as they had no men with the expertise needed . |
| 25 | Donal Lunny came down , and Gerry O'Beirne and Mary Custy and Eoin O'Neill , my sister Mary , and Adam Calyton , Mike Scott and Steve Wickham had been over in Spiddal at the time , working with John , so they came over for the crack . |
| 26 | Around July time Sequent will release , for its Symmetry servers , the version of Unix SVR4 ES/MP that it worked on for Unix System Labs and has been sitting on since completion last March . |
| 27 | His deep , deep penetration of her came when they could hold back no longer , when the sensuality had swollen so painfully inside them that it cried out for release . |
| 28 | To contend under these circumstances that Jesus was a feminist , or that he spoke out for women , must imply a very low estimate of what being a feminist ( or speaking out for women ) might mean . |
| 29 | I only caught a bit of it but he said that he turned up for training and was surprised to be called in and told about the deal . |
| 30 | Pilots were to be Russ Boardman and Lee Gehlbach , but Boardman was injured prior to the race and Doolittle found he had no mount ( his landing gear had jammed ) , so he took over for the Thompson . |